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Re:I Still Use RSS by jedimastert on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @02:13PM (#26017793)
On the one hand, I hate that as a user. On the other hand, I'd love to know how many people actually read a story.

I haven't found a good solution, but I just suck it up and serve the full text anyways

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Re:I Still Use RSS by philsnow on Wednesday February 03, 2021 @07:08PM (#26020960)
This exact problem applies to podcast analytics. "Downloads" is only a proxy for "listens" / ad impressions.

It seems to me like there needs to be a standard pingback endpoint (either in /.well-known or, better, right in the podcast/rss XML) that your client pings when it seems like you've consumed the content (scrolled through most of a web page, listened to 80+% of a podcast), but only if you've opted in to that.

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